Word: chitlin
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Reinventing what was known in pre-integration years as the "chitlin circuit"--black theater and vaudeville--Perry crossed the South and the largely black cities of the Midwest with his rep company of actor-singers. Making a go of such a project would be revolutionary, or counterrevolutionary, enough. But it's the tone of his plays that's startling: a violent blend of the earthy and the Evangelical...
...describing one witness as looking as "clean as Winn-Dixie chitlin...
Written by James L. White and director Taylor Hackford, Ray traces Charles' career briskly (given the 2-hr. 32-min. running time) and with a persuasive authenticity. Ray hones his chops on the chitlin circuit, signs with Atlantic Records and starts fusing gospel with blues. The epochal What'd I Say--a group orgasm in 12-bar form--could have wed him to rock 'n' roll. But Charles was as voracious for all kinds of music as he was for women. That is, very...
...Cafe." A lurking melodrama in the "Hernando?s Hideaway" fashion (but written a year before that Broadway tune), it?s sung by L&S? L.A. discoveries the Robins. It features an almost maniacally comic attack by lead singer Carl Gardner. The vocal could have come right off the Chitlin Circuit of black vaudeville; imagine Mantan Moreland as a great belter. The production is full, clear and incorrigibly boppin?- Leiber and Stoller, out by the Pacific, showing the Atlantic boys how it?s done. Ertegun was smart enough to know he wanted not just the record but its begettors...
...eating internal organs or to dishes which too closely resemble the animal that bore them. It sometimes strikes me as disguised snobbery. Land of plenty, no need to eat the cheap parts--let's stigmatize all those poor people who have to. I wonder about the way people mock chitlin-eating: is it a disguised middle-class attack on the lower classes...